Um... you were doing great until you hit the piracy part. That isn't why apps are less expensive on Android. The issue is that Android's market (small m market) are competitive because there are multiple ways consumers can buy (Google, Amazon, etc)

With a legitimate argument. Sure they are going to appeal. Because they are out of business if they don't.

Nah. Mint will just update their GUI appropriately. Unity is early, and will probably die because of it.

Oh no. Not this again.

Problem is they confused an engineering problem for a design problem and ended up with an ornate piece of crap.

In the Unix world, we tend not to bloat one tool with the features of another. Just google linux mount zip or linux mount rar for some interesting ways to do what you want that rely on the Unix many simple tools that work together philosophy.

I am not a lawyer,and the following is not legal advice:

I can see where anyone who is a sole proprietor or owns a company and entitles them self a "systems engineer" or "software engineer" would run into trouble under that law. After reading all of 471, I can't see where some guy who gets a job as a programmer at a company he does not own and gets handed a stack of business cards that say "software engineer" on them would be prosecuted under 471.031. Would seem there are more than a few provisions in that law to prevent people in that situation from being prosecuted (see .003, 0.31, .023).

In other words, a printed card may or may not violate the statute, and you probably should get some legal advice from an actual lawyer if you are concerned about it.

Let me clarify this for you. A programmer is a puh-tey-toh. A software developer is a puh-tah-toh.

Got it?

Sheesh. This is silly. The only place where there is an issue is when someone hangs out a shingle that and practices engineering. People with creative job titles (i.e. Database Engineer) and graduate engineers (4 year degree EE without license) are not being prosecuted for calling themselves by their job titles or degrees UNLESS they hang out a shingle and open a contract engineering company or are claiming to own a company that holds an authorization certificate and does not.

This whole trying to make engineering work like the law industry isn't going

I'd rather you tell the truth and say you are a PHP programmer who has expertise with Joomla. Joomla is only programmable in PHP.

The issue is not the programmer. The issue is the customer being willing to waive their warranty rights in order to use software. In many states, you still have statutory warranty rights, it's just that the $3 you paid for Angry Birds is not worth going to court over when it locks up your phone. Your cities $1.6million E911 dispatch software that doesn't work is worth going to court over, and often times developers are held liable for defects.

Using an agile methodology to build anything that is an expensive one-shot build (bridge, rocket, automobile, etc) that has to last forever is insanity.
Using a "systems engineering" top down approach to build something that can be torn down and built instantly for virtually free is equally stupid. Especially when the complete specifications are simply not available now.

Technology has changed. Connected devices and package management tools have made systems that used to be expensive one-shot builds into systems that can be reconfigured, repurposed and rebuilt nearly instantly and for nearly free. It's now an agile world. Get used to it works with a few warts that will be fixed in the next update.

You should look at what Nixon wanted to do in the 1970s.

Ubuntu server is very good, but you really will have to deep-dive into Apache and the mail server of your choice which adds about 200% over just learning Linux. In your case, though, it sounds more like you are setting up to serve a few PHP apps. If that is the case, I'd recommend setting up on a Cpanel based hosting service (Cpanel runs on CentOS and has become a de-facto standard for serving PHP apps like PHPBB 3). If you need a dedicated server, you can find places where you can get a Cpanel server for $100/month-$200/month... or you can license it for your own server. There is a reason that Cpanel is so popular...

Ignore all the static here about "another admin who doesn't know what he/she is doing". Every one of us here knew nothing at one time. Yes, you'll learn a few lessons the hard way, but as long as you have regular backups and pay attention to ensuring users have strong passwords, you probably will not do anything you can't recover from.

[joke]I'm sure passing a law mandating that CO2 no longer enter the atmosphere will work about as well as Indiana's ill fated attempt to legislate the value of pi.[/joke] Even if the legislation indirectly tired to stop CO2 emissions by targeting human behaviors, it would be rife with loopholes, ignored, and probably near unenforceable.

If the problem is the level of CO2 in the atmosphere then develop the process and supporting technology for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Sure, funding the solution is political, but it's not a grade a scapegoat, beard and all. Solve the problem instead of putting a stupid hack in place that only works when specific human behaviors are the source of CO2. Apply science. Engineer. Invent. Make something that actually solves the problem instead of a workaround for idiot users that will only work until a better idiot comes along.